It’s about 5 o’clock on a summer evening, and the residents of New Town are taking advantage of the day’s still-generous sunshine. On one of the canals, kayakers paddle; at the water’s edge, fishermen await nibbles on their lines; a couple embraces for a photo.
Opened in 2004 by developer Greg Whittaker, New Town is an example of New Urbanism that feels more like a movie set than a neighborhood in the suburbs of St. Louis. It’s located in St. Charles, north of Interstate 370 amid acres of farmland, but its planning concept is based on old urban precedents of places like Charleston, South Carolina, and Key West, Florida. The development of 700-plus acres comprises five neighborhoods complete with ponds and canals and small businesses. A town hall and amphitheater serve as anchors. Completing the town-within-a-town are six restaurants, a wedding chapel, a dentist’s office, and a church. Book clubs, cycling groups, and an organic farm keep residents occupied.
This story is from the November/December 2019 edition of DesignSTL.
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Cut from the Same Cloth
“Turkey Tracks” is a 19th-century quiltmaking pattern that has the appearance of little wandering feet. Patterns like the tracks, and their traditions and myths, have been passed down through the generations, from their frontier beginnings to today, where a generation of makers has embraced the material as a means of creating something new. Olivia Jondle is one such designer. Here, she’s taken an early turkey track-pattern quilt, cut it into various shapes, and stitched the pieces together, adding calico and other fabric remnants as needed. The result is a trench coat she calls the Pale Calico Coat. Her designs are for sale at The Rusty Bolt, Jondle’s small-batch fashion company based in St. Louis. —SAMANTHA STEVENSON
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